However, last season Southampton gained unprecedented success and finished as high as eighth in the standings.

Pochettino’s brilliant work at Southampton saw him get the managerial job at Tottenham, and the Argentine has continued to show his class at White Hart Lane.

However, recent comments of the former Espanyol coach seem to have ruffled Southampton legend Le Tissier.

Pochettino was quoted as saying by The Daily Mail: “We brought a lot of young players through and finished eighth. It is always easier taking over a winning team which is the case this time with Ronald [Koeman]. We came here and had to reinvent things.

"We always laugh about it because we left a team at Southampton that practically trained itself after a year and a half to come here where we had to recreate everything that we had done at Southampton, pretty much from zero, but it’s a great challenge.’

Le Tissier, who currently works as a Sky Sports pundit, seems to have taken offence to Pochettini’s comments and posted a series of messages on social networking site Twitter.

Interesting thoughts from pochettino today claiming koeman took over a winning team! No doubt MP did decent job........but....

Subhankar Mondal

A football journalist based in Wakefield, Subhankar Mondal has previously worked for Goal.com International and Skysports.com, and has had his sports articles published in The Guardian and The Observer. He has also been on the BBC in the past and his name once found its way to the pages of the World Soccer magazine. He was recently cited in a major Louis van Gaal biography.